AI-Based Automation of Semiconductor Manufacturing Siemens and Globalfoundries Agree on Collaboration for AI-Supported Production

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Siemens and Globalfoundries aim to implement AI-based automation and software in semiconductor manufacturing. The goal is to achieve more efficient, reliable, and secure production processes.

Globalfoundries Fab 1 in Dresden: Together with Siemens, the semiconductor manufacturer has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly advance AI-driven semiconductor manufacturing.(Image: Globalfoundries)
Globalfoundries Fab 1 in Dresden: Together with Siemens, the semiconductor manufacturer has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to jointly advance AI-driven semiconductor manufacturing.
(Image: Globalfoundries)

Siemens and Globalfoundries (GF) have agreed on a strategic collaboration to leverage their respective AI-based technologies in semiconductor manufacturing and other industrial applications. To this end, the two companies have signed a memorandum of understanding.

The agreement focuses on automation solutions for chip manufacturing, including factory automation, electrification, and digital software solutions from chip design to product lifecycle management. Planned measures include the use of centralized, AI-supported control and automation systems, complemented by sensors, real-time control, and predictive maintenance. This aims to improve equipment availability and operational efficiency in manufacturing.

The partners aim to first implement the developed solutions in their own production environments and derive applications that can be transferred to other advanced industrial sectors, such as robotics, energy, or connected systems.

Siemens contributes its portfolio of industrial, energy, and building automation, as well as software for design, manufacturing, and digitalization. Globalfoundries adds process and manufacturing expertise, as well as design know-how.

"Our economy is based on silicon—one wafer at a time. Chips are crucial for applications such as robotics or connectivity as well as for the implementation of AI in the physical world and industry. We are working together to make global semiconductor supply chains more resilient and to enable efficient local manufacturing around the world," said Cedrik Neike, Member of the Managing Board of Siemens AG and CEO of Digital Industries.

"Secure, locally manufactured semiconductors are at the heart of the AI transformation—from the cloud to the physical world. They bring intelligence to devices we use daily and enable applications we couldn't have imagined a few years ago," said Tim Breen, CEO of Globalfoundries. "Our unique collaboration with Siemens allows us to move forward faster—to develop the technologies that make this possible: differentiated, energy-efficient, connected, and secure chips for a variety of next-generation applications."

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